http://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-jfk-files-rhetoric-vs-truth.html
Tracy: Aren't these documents the same ones that were found and reviewed by the
AARB ARRB and then withheld on national security concerns? These are the ones that Judge Tunheim said he saw and that, in his opinion, contained sources and methods and nothing indicating a conspiracy?
Or is this a different batch?
As to Morley: at this point the man has turned into a tabloid style conspiracy writer. He's gotten progressively irresponsible over the years and now seems to hit bottom. Anyone who writes that the CIA is an "incipient Gestapo" is, frankly, not very reliable. That idea may have made sense - or was debatable - after the "Family Jewels" revelations in the 1970s that showed the agency engaging in lawless and immoral activity (almost all approved by presidents including JFK). But the CIA today is a far different entity. Gestapo? They're largely a incompetent bureaucracy that can't get out its way.
Nalli's comment that you quote summarizes this whole controversy quite well (if that's possible):
"Once we start denying key pieces of evidence (e.g., the Zapruder Film, autopsy materials, physical evidence, etc.) without ironclad proof (i.e., other more fundamental evidence), we can then deny all the evidence on the same grounds. And once we have descended to that point, we no longer have any basis for investigation or argument, nor any basis for ‘believing it’—we are simply wasting our time debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin."
That's it. Oswald defenders/apologists and conspiracists think that by finding that an official lied (some did), or an eyewitness was wrong (some were), or aspects were covered up (they were) that that itself constitutes enough evidence to show a conspiracy. That Oswald was framed. That larger forces were behind the event. Sorry, it's not.
But here we are some almost six decades later with the same arguments, the same discussions. At this point the evidence is sufficient: one can accept the fact that a nobody like Oswald changed history or that no, it has to be much more than that simple explanation. People have a need to believe that great events must have a great cause behind it. They can't or won't believe that Oswald was the agent that altered the world so much. The Oswald cult is like the Trump cult. Their guy simply didn't do anything wrong.
